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[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─I imagine it will be smaller than Skylab: ISS volume = 931.57 m3 (32,898 cu ft) Skylab = 351.6 m3 (12,417 cu ft) As usual, India's ISRO will show how to do it cheap. It also helps that their requirements are low (small size, 2-3 astronauts, maximum 7-day visits instead of months). Perhaps they will...
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─Dang, it's another pho-phy.
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─No need. We'll make sure the first astronaut who lands there is a traditional Irish, a believer that salt is all the spices you need to cook.
[00:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─Fat chance. We'll only send drone IP [wccftech.com] there.
[00:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:45] <exec> 08└─Only conspiracy theorists believe that! Never be extradited to USA!
[00:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:46] <exec> 08└─AC you're responding to here. I have no idea as to what did or did not happen. Nor do I make any claim one way or the other. I posted a news article that gives details of claims made by the US DOJ. Are they true? I don't know and I never said I did. And unless you're Chelsea Manning or Julian Assang...
[00:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not your "fren" c0lo. I linked to the same DOJ press release you did [soylentnews.org]. Your point?
[00:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─So what would need to happen to make this seem bad to the apologists?
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─And this selfishness is why we can have a nice world to live in.
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─typo: can --> can't
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─A traditionally squishy metric... is that with or without phosphate fertilizer
[00:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─The causes of poverty don't scale with population
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[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─China doesn't need it... They have already stolen all the technology that manufacturing companies didn't give them already in their quest to build the cheapest drones.
[01:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:32] <exec> 08└─Not going to happen... Unless the current head of the US is an idiot or senile. (Oh, wait...) Why would Trump want Assange here in the US? And someone like Attorney General Bob Barr, who covers for said president isn't thinking this one out either. While Assange is someone that is not friendly to th...
[01:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:49] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck not just be intelligent and run Windows in a linux VM?
[01:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:21] <exec> 08└─I just looked at that one, and I don't really see the benefit. For predicting a week in advance for any point in the CONUS, you need to look at 9 of the 20 regions. To use native atmospheric calculations requires 5 dimensions and lookup tables, and you still have distortions in the model larger than...
[01:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:18] <exec> 08└─I guess it really doesn't matter.
[01:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:34] <exec> 08└─Opportunity: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[01:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─Microsoft will be the savior of Linux by luring Poettering into the fold and going full systemd ahead.
[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:08] <exec> 08└─Hey khallow, > they are all driving trucks with one person in them How about we reframe this as the result of bad regulation instead of self-imposed restraint? The truck/SUV craze in the USA started when the Feds allowed trucks easier safety, emission and fuel economy regs than cars. First result, t...
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[02:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─I cant wait for my new liquid nitrogen cooled graphine-FET, the power savings from 0 resistance would add up! :)
[02:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe they can stack up enough layers to make ribbon cable, using alternate layers as the insulation. Atomic scale parallel interface cabling and other wiring harnesses, with no plastic insulation.
[02:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─TFA desperately needs some pictures or diagrams. The “perfect insulator” hyperlink has an animated picture of two latticed planes rotating with respect to each other, but remaining parallel, to give you some idea.
[02:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─in fact they don't even need a toilet! Just think how they can shit all over the moon.
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it
[02:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:50] <exec> 08└─does it have added Iodine, a necessary nutrient?
[02:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sure NASA, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc. have some drone IPee left for them to drain.
[02:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I haven't seen any big international support shown for the protesters in Hong Kong. They seem to be fighting a good fight, where is the support from either: other world leaders, or at least some big NGOs?
[02:15:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:14] <exec> 08└─Just thinking about it, I can already hear people's heads exploding. Not that that will ever happen, sadly. -- What are they even going to be charging him with, anyway? He wasn't the guy who stole the information, WikiLeaks isn't hosted in the U.S., and he's not even a U.S. citizen. So why exactly d...
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:02] <exec> 08└─...Although from the Wikipedia article the Australian PM sounds like a spineless twat as well.
[02:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─Well this is gonna be one f*cked up kangaroo court then. I guess you guys are still running Gitmo? But hey, if you want to treat the man even worse, sentence him for terrorism, get his native country to strip him of his citizenship (yeah, we do that shit), and then send him back on a boat so he ends...
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:05] <exec> 08└─Pantywaste: poopoo Pantywaist: pansy bear
[02:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─Wow Wikipedia sure proved your point!
[02:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:56] <exec> 08└─For example, surface temperatures have been biased low in some situations, throwing off forecasts.
[02:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:55] <exec> 08└─I should have said key rings with bling. You know, a key chain with some bauble on it, emblazoned with a high end automobile logo.
[02:19:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:25] <exec> 08└─They say they did. But this was a multi-stage construction, and the first crack appeared after the supports were removed from the span after it had been made on the side of the road. The span did not want to stay in one piece in the stages 2 and 3. Transportation made cracks worse; placing it across...
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[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─It's phoenix with singularity again. Fuckityfuckyfuck.
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:32] <exec> 08└─"OK, but if a guy named Khan Noonien Singh takes over the project, then what?" Not to worry. I'm sure realDonaldTrump has that one covered with his Space Force.
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─Just put a guy in an airtight suit up there, and call it a "space station". You can't get any smaller than that! Three guys = 3 space stations!
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─Excellent! The astronaut who catches the first Europan fish won't have to send away for seasoning.
[03:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─Arthur C. Clarke consciously chose Europa since even at the time he wrote the book and screenplay (1968) Europa was already thought to be a good candidate for possible life elsewhere in the solar system. Clarke was well known for mostly writing sci fi that was at least consistent with the known scie...
[03:15:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:54] <exec> 08└─What was never going to happen was summary execution of going directly to Gitmo or whatever other conspiracy theory nonsense people around here were spouting.
[03:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:05] <exec> 08└─Ra! Ra! Ra!
[03:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:07] <exec> 08└─If convicted, Assange will end up in one of these locations [bop.gov]. Once there, he won't have to worry about whether anyone uses condoms or not. Maybe he should stock up on these [wsj.com].
[03:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:09] <exec> 08└─Horse shit. Time to admit the US is fucked up. Due process is a fiction, justice is a fiction, and it has been the same for millenia. The US was founded on the believable lie of freedom. The country was so large that malcontents could spread out, but now that relief valve is shut tight and the farce...
[03:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:08] <exec> 08└─Poor Newton was never the same after that apple hit the soft spot on the top of his head.
[03:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:09] <exec> 08└─No no, those cracks are necessary- concrete has to out-gas to fully cure and toughen up.
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[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─The BFR/Starship will have a pressurized volume greater than the entire ISS. Just send the spaceship up, and you have a space station. Another Starship can be used to refuel it, and that fuel can counteract atmospheric drag. It will almost certainly have a docking port so that it could be attached a...
[04:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:16] <exec> 08└─Time to admit the US is fucked up. Due process is a fiction, justice is a fiction, and it has been the same for millenia.
[04:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:18] <exec> 08└─You are assuming Assange will be allowed to remain alive once he starts giving out inconvenient information. I would not bet more than you can afford to lose gracefully on this being the case.
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[04:16:35] <exec> 08└─"grate"?? Is that for the cheese? Or sewer covering?
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:59] <exec> 08└─Never played Universe Sandbox eh? (: /s
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[05:14:48] <exec> 08└─***shrinkage***!
[05:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:05] <exec> 08└─If the oceans turns out to be close enough to our salinity, do we not owe it to life to colonize this planet with bacteria and other organisms that live on the bottom of our oceans?
[05:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I hope Europa has blood pressure meds to go with all that sodium.
[05:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:27] <exec> 08└─You are assuming Assange will be allowed to remain alive once he starts giving out inconvenient information. I would not bet more than you can afford to lose gracefully on this being the case.
[05:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:28] <exec> 08└─Have to admit it was brilliant planning on the part of the lizard people. We'll be arguing about whether the R team (because sitting president) or D team (because they apparently can't just drone him) are the bad guys all 2020 long.
[05:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:31] <exec> 08└─Committing a crime in the UK, while Australian, gives you immunity.
[05:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:33] <exec> 08└─Journalism is the equivalent of shooting people in Clown World. Top kek.
[05:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:35] <exec> 08└─Holy fucking shit! Here it is, folks, here it fucking is! Xenophobic jibberish out of a member of a political party that pretends to be progressive! "It can't happen here! It can't happen here!" Bullshit. It is happening here (with apologies to the person who called it). Hmm, if Germany, expect the...
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[05:21:02] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering what statistical analysis you did to confirm that. Sure it is 106 more than the mean, but the smallest was 97 less. They could both be well within the distribution, given that there are 16^5 possible buckets for the hashes to fall into; especially since he didn't give the stdev in the...
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[06:14:30] <exec> 08└─How does this affect my social status?
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─Quick! America HAS to assault this moon! (pun intended)
[06:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:31] <exec> 08└─You don't fight enemies you have no hope of beating. (Example: Everyone let Russia take Crimea and eastern Ukraine.) Plus MONEY, man! We do major business with this shitball country. We barely criticize them for far worse that they have done inside their borders.
[06:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:33] <exec> 08└─Support for what exactly? HK belongs to China. Sure China had some lip service stating they'll keep status quo for 50 years after the loan to the British expired in 97, but ultimately HK is part of China to begin with. Its not like politicians/governments don't break promises in other countries - so...
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[06:15:35] <exec> 08└─You are correct. I also found your phrasing very appropriate: "HK *belongs* to China."
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[06:16:48] <exec> 08└─Yes. Such a shame nobody knew about his weak heart. The autopsy carried out by prison doctors showed that he had an undiagnosed aortal defect, and that his death was completely unexpected and totally natural causes and not suspicious at all. The remains have been cremated.
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[07:14:35] <exec> 08└─You may become attractive - especially to iron ladies.
[07:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:25] <exec> 08└─If there's something else already living there, no. That would only be our second data point for life and I'd rather not waste it by contaminating it with our kind of life!
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[07:16:54] <exec> 08└─And are there no blasphemy laws anywhere in the USA?
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[07:16:55] <exec> 08└─you better have a big friend on your side. Assange did not.
[07:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:57] <exec> 08└─That depends, are you part of the US government? If so, then you can shoot anyone you want, mark the evidence as classified, and have anyone who publishes that evidence after it has been leaked extradited to stand trial for espionage.
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[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nano Organisms Create Plastics and Fuels - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:44] <exec> 08└─Great, and just in time! The world is renouncing plastic in all its forms and does not want to burn the midnight oil any more — and we can now get the little critters to create unlimited amounts for us ... Just what we need. Ah well, we can probably use it to sequester CO2 by stacking mile-h...
[08:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:45] <exec> 08└─America belongs to UK.
[08:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:46] <exec> 08└─I knew some dope wouldn't get my phrasing. HK belongs to China as in HK is China's bitch and can do nothing about it.
[08:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:46] <exec> 08└─why's your version now "proved" wrong, and my version "proved" correct?
[08:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you, sir. As a mathematician, I always get wound up by people who can't tell the difference between mathematics and science, and consequently between mathematical proof (absolute, even if dependent on something unproven, such as GRH), and scientific proof (relative to what else we know at the...
[08:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:50] <exec> 08└─Why has reality fallen outside the 95% confidence bounds of every IPCC prediction for decades? It's the group that constantly changes their predictions every time their previous one is demonstrated to be false that you ought to be more critical of. I trust the Mayans more when it comes to predicting...
[08:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:52] <exec> 08└─why's ...
[08:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:54] <exec> 08└─Oh - "proof" also means little more than "test" in some contexts, so don't rely too heavily on common English, it's an ambiguous language. (Same etymological root as "probe", so hardly surprising.)
[08:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:56] <exec> 08└─yes
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[09:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:32] <exec> 08└─Now, instead of having one app for all these different things, you're going to have three, four, five apps to access different types of media.
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─It's a pity but it does make sense in a convoluted way. iTunes has been a messy app for a long time, partially because Apple keeps on changing the menu options and the user interface, forcing me to have to find the controls for the features I use.
[09:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:35] <exec> 08└─"Now, instead of having one app for all these different things, you're going to have three, four, five apps to access different types of media." Added Fader: "I had the same initial reaction, which is, 'This is not streamlining.'"
[09:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:43] <exec> 08└─Universal donor is O-, not O+. Have they also found something to take care of the Rh factor?
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:45] <exec> 08└─However, their job, is not yet finished.
[09:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:56] <exec> 08└─I think you mean 0.031 jiggawatts, which we'll all have access to in the future.
[09:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:58] <exec> 08└─... is that the increase is only 1 %. Progress in (superconducting) magnet design has driven many fields; for example particle physics is driven by accelerator physics. The highest energy accelerator rings are essentially limited by magnet technology. So maybe there is no higher energy accelerator a...
[09:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:00] <exec> 08└─There is already a 11.7T human MRI and even a 21T small animal MRI. But field strength is not the main problen, the difficulty is that you need a magnetic field as homogeneous as possible in the volume you are imaging (that's why there are higher fields for rats and mice - smaller volume - than for...
[09:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:02] <exec> 08└─But only if you keep your cool below the superconductivity temperature.
[09:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:16] <exec> 08└─"Prove" it! :)
[09:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:18] <exec> 08└─You know that the guys at Dubna spend their time accelerating lighter elements to energies comparable with the shockwaves in novae and slam them against heavy targets to synthesize transuranic elements, right? That "proves" that energetic-enough collision is a valid mechanism for the creation of tra...
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[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:47] <exec> 08└─TFA does not mention the rhesus factor. This is an error in TFS as creating O+ would imply that you attach the Rh+ antigen to Rh- blood cells which has never been demonstrated. What was generated was O+ or O-, depending on the donor. Relevant, nice work, which made me think: why hasn't this been tri...
[10:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:00] <exec> 08└─Interesting thing... is that the increase is only 1 %.
[10:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:02] <exec> 08└─I hope the company will be named 'Con': Con fusion devices.
[10:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:57] <exec> 08└─More importantly: how to remove the micro-plastic? You see, in that cold climate the aliens will use tons of facial creams.
[10:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:33] <exec> 08└─I want you to remember what you said here, and once Assange is either acquitted and released or serves his time and is released, you can think back to how much your dark, paranoid ideation interfered with your perception of reality. When that day comes, I suspect that you're not self-reflective enou...
[10:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:27] <exec> 08└─Remind me where I said that the earlier mechanism was impossible and never happened. Take your time, I'm not in a rush.
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[11:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:28] <exec> 08└─WMD [wikipedia.org], RainbowWarrior [wikipedia.org], Lusitania [wikipedia.org], USS Maine [wikipedia.org]... . Cui bono?
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─I'm torn. On one hand I find Pomeo's credibility to be very, very low. On the other hand there's video [apnews.com] of Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine from one of the oil tankers.
[11:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:41] <exec> 08└─Nonetheless, that piggy bastard can singlehandedly slow my macbook to a crawl, and the Windows version is so slow and unreliable with large libraries that uploading it to google, letting them handle the database bullshit, and streaming it back to my computer is faster - on a DSL connection that freq...
[11:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:42] <exec> 08└─iNope. iLinux.
[11:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:45] <exec> 08└─Good riddance to bad garbage.
[11:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:47] <exec> 08└─1. you are holdingswiping/tapping/stroking it wrong!
[11:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:49] <exec> 08└─What does it do for the users that requires the download file to be 260MB?
[11:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:38] <exec> 08└─What he did do was show the world Americans committing crimes, so why hasn't something been done about that?
[11:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:40] <exec> 08└─Quick save if you acidentally say: "Jesus, is the son of god", correct to "I meant Jesus is the sun-shine of God! Mohammad was a much greater profet". Quickly change the topic to "Have you heard that some crazies believe in a Spaghetti Monster?". Oh, yea humans are crazy right?. Hahha. Then you're b...
[11:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:29] <exec> 08└─Remind me where I said that the earlier mechanism was impossible and never happened.
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[12:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:48] <exec> 08└─How did I end up on Slashdot? Could have sworn I was going somewhere else....
[12:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:50] <exec> 08└─If this is all we have to post to SN, may I suggest just we post fewer stories. Stop the click-bait agitation feedback loop.
[12:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:52] <exec> 08└─You'll get no fireworks from me. Genetics play a role. Men and women are genetically different, and this influences all sorts of things. In fair competition, men are going to be better at sports that require strength, women are going to be better as sports that require long-term endurance and (argua...
[12:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─More bait and switch tabloid style methods of grabbing attention.
[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:56] <exec> 08└─Careful, you'll get modded "off-topic" for pointing it out. That's not the sort of argument they're trying to foster.
[12:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:07] <exec> 08└─You're not alone [time.com] in this state It was an extraordinarily rare move for the military to quickly declassify such imagery for public consumption, but the footage provided compelling documentation to support the Administration’s claims about Iran’s role in sabotage. Still, the events Thur...
[12:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:09] <exec> 08└─May be they used these [amazon.com]? Because, you know, modern mines planted by elite state forces are so prone to fail and so conveniently? And WTH we have photos! [cbsnews.com] I can't see how this could benefit Iran in any way, more over when have maintained the nuclear deal with EU and US despit...
[12:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:11] <exec> 08└─Is this Iran? Or a false-flag by the US? Or some third party trying to escalate tensions? There is not enough evidence to be sure, and the trustworthiness of all parties is completely nonexistent. It's all a question of whose propaganda you believe. I think the only reasonable response is to have th...
[12:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:27] <exec> 08└─Bring back Sound Jam. Oh, and get off my lawn ....
[12:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:53] <exec> 08└─Superconductivity is limited by peak field on the conductor, current and temperature. There is a so-called "J-B curve" above which superconductors become normal conducting. Additionally, stresses in the superconductor are proportional to the magnetic field in which the wire sits. So it is not fair t...
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[12:15:54] <exec> 08└─So it is not fair to say that this is a negligible achievement, even if additional coils "help" with the field.
[12:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree, those guys at MIT who discovered it are worthless hacks. An anonymous coward on SoylentNews does know better.
[12:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:27] <exec> 08└─So he recommended Hashcat or John the Ripper or whatever they're called? Oh, shit will I be extradited now?
[12:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03amlu [6052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:29] <exec> 08└─Poor dude, hopefully someone offers him a cyanide pill, if not he will be stuck in endless torture-recovery-torture loop, to the point of getting insane. Mess up with the masters in land of the freedom and you end up like that.
[12:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:31] <exec> 08└─You're defending the Trump administration because you're right-wing, and you attempt to excuse this fact in your heart by generally supporting the less right-wing and supposedly "progressive" of the two major capitalist parties. (The one also known as the graveyard of progressive movements.) But the...
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[13:14:58] <exec> 08└─This is going to get the neck beards all riled up. I predict a thoughtful and enlightening discussion.
[13:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:59] <exec> 08└─Men and women are genetically different,
[13:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:02] <exec> 08└─Women on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour regularly significantly outdrive professional men
[13:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:04] <exec> 08└─Is it still "keeping up with a bunch of children" a woman's duty even today? Are blondes still stupid and women bad drivers? Maybe even women are hysteric by nature and need to be slapped out of it from time to time? Zumi, 2¢ for your thoughts on it. I promise I'll donate them to S/N editors, maybe...
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[13:15:06] <exec> 08└─Kids’ soccer in Barcelona recently proved the same point: This past season, the under-14 and under-12 girls’ teams played against boys the same age; the girls trounced the boys handily. The girls played harder in the mixed teams, and playing with boys “really makes them perform better,” Mari...
[13:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:08] <exec> 08└─It already has. Look at the bunch of anonymous incel loosers who posted so far. And these assholes wonder why no woman wants to be anywhere near them. In fact, no person in his/her right mind would want to have anything to do with such a bunch of misoginistic, angry, bitter loosers.
[13:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:10] <exec> 08└─Riled up?! I'm printing it out and sticking it on the pickle-jars shelf! One less reason to get off the couch or step out of the basement! Woo Hoo!
[13:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:13] <exec> 08└─As long as each individual is fairly treated, it doesn't matter.
[13:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:15] <exec> 08└─At least in the ultramarathons, women genetically store more fat in more places, and probably access it more easily.
[13:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─I recently read some articles about the ultimate limit of human athletic endurance in a variety of media sources. The science boiled down to the limit being the ability to convert chemical stored energy into kinetic energy - a function primarily performed by mitochondria, which do not differ between...
[13:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:30] <exec> 08└─From BBC > The UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said his country's "starting point" was to "believe our US allies". It's a rather mitigated response from a traditional US ally - even UK doesn't believe it... (though they are distracted right now).
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you also want to read this then: https://japantoday.com'flying-objects'-just-before-attack [japantoday.com] The crew and owners of the ship say it didn't hit a mine. (Contradicting US military) Further the video shown seems a bit strange comi...
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[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─(though they are distracted right now).
[13:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:35] <exec> 08└─What was wrong again with that multi-country treaty that Trump dropped?
[13:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:38] <exec> 08└─Kinda reaching there, aren't ya? 1898? 1915? The US hasn't used the sinking of a ship to excuse a war in over 100 years.
[13:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:40] <exec> 08└─You can't sneeze without somebody capturing it on a smart phone. Why would anybody run thru an area that has seen recent attacks without video cameras all over the ship?
[13:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:56] <exec> 08└─I miss my Winamp 3 on my PII 400. Get off *my* lawn.
[13:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I completely missed the sarcasm!
[13:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:25] <exec> 08└─The fine article notes applications to: > medicine (magnetic resonance imaging), pharmacy (nuclear magnetic resonance) I was under the impression that these are the same, perhaps at different size (larger for MRI). Am I correct in thinking that the reason the earlier name NMR was dropped was because...
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:01] <exec> 08└─It's a great exploit of the innate human tendency to tribalism.
[13:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:03] <exec> 08└─It's not a MAGA issue. This effort to get Assange began under Obama. But that's not to say it's an Obama issue, either. Rather, it's an Establishment/1%/Deep State/UniParty/whatever-label-you-prefer issue that is far above the pay grade of any political party or administration.
[13:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:05] <exec> 08└─When you come in with apologia for parties that are clearly acting on a vendetta rather than an actual crime, then yes. When you defend a rigged game that is our modern system, then yes. You're effectively behaving like a lickspittle in service to Al Capone, who declares that those accusing him of m...
[13:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, things aren't trending in your direction. As many others have pointed out upthread, the extradition request to Sweden was always a ruse to get Assange into the clutches of the US security state, and they have rightfully said, "I told you so."
[13:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know that we can save Assange in time, but perhaps we can give his tormentors the same treatment. As they have sown, so must they reap.
[13:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:11] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[13:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:14] <exec> 08└─And you believe that Assange will be murdered in Federal custody? Because that's what our off-his-meds paranoiac is predicting. That won't serve the Trump Administration's goal of attempting to cow the media, now will it? It won't work, of course. But it will make for more Trumpian soundbites.
[13:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:16] <exec> 08└─I have no idea as to what did or did not happen. Nor do I make any claim one way or the other. And neither do you. Are you having problems with reading comprehension?
[13:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:18] <exec> 08└─Why don't you go drown yourself in the Gowanus Canal. It won't do you any good, but I'll feel better.
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─Do you not draw a distinction between the concepts of "some" and "all"? The R process needs neutrons, lots of them, very quickly. I'm just saying that I always considered neutron stars mergers to be a *better* source of dense neutrons than supernovae, not the only source. The text books of my youth...
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[14:14:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─You'll get no fireworks from me. Genetics play a role. Men and women are genetically different, and this influences all sorts of things. In fair competition, men are going to be better at sports that require strength, women are going to be better as sports that require long-term endurance and (argua...
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─O guess you're in luck. Virtually all of the people responsible for those policies are, in fact, dead and buried. (I would say all, but there's probably some 100 year old fossil in a nursing home somewhere hitting on the nurses). The 1970s were long enough ago that most of the people responsible for...
[14:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─Looser == Not as tight Loser == Not a winner Do you get paid by the 'o' or something? Other than that, you're spot on!
[14:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:50] <exec> 08└─So why do women still pay higher interest rates than men? Why is there still a gender pay gap? Why do women, despite working just as hard and long as men, still do most of the household chores? Culture changes slowly, friend. Which is why said *attitudes*. Many of those people are, in fact, dead. Bu...
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─le incel meme! Maybe we just don't like clickbait social politics on an ostensibly technology oriented news aggregator? You know damn well the only reason this story here is to rile, so why are you acting surprised?
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─Women and men are exactly the same except for the ways that women are better.
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─I would take the anecdote from one military trainer with a grain of salt, though. His situation is not only anecdotal, but influenced by a large number of uncontrolled social factors.
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─I agree with your points, AC; but because I am an egalitarian: Also why do women pay lower car insurance? Why do women get more time on parental leave? Why do women get to work part-time more? Why do men have higher suicide rates?
[14:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:17] <exec> 08└─Follow the money. Who benefits from these attacks? Investors? Of course there could also be some twisted ideological reason for the attacks, but I would check the oil market for big winners right now.
[14:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─makes no sense. methinks 'murika has proven time-and-again that they're the "god of bombs". air superiority is not contested. for land based anti-air stuff, there's always tomahawks first. so either this is really really ... really st0pid iran or allies of them doing some weather dance so it will ra...
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─And pulling the mine off signifies what? If Saudi planted a mine that says "Made in Iran", Iran would want to take it.
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─What was wrong again with that multi-country treaty that Trump dropped? Was it because it was Obama's signature on it or was it because it reduced the profit if the "traditional allies" the Saudis and UAE (by opening up Iran and allowing them to sell some of their oil)?
[14:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:26] <exec> 08└─Don't know about the rest of the world, but oil companies in AU raised petrol prices in advance of the attacks, citing the increase in crude prices caused by the attacks. Read that again.
[14:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─the AU is closer to the date-border ^_^
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─You forgot perhaps the most relevant example, Golf of Tonkin [wikipedia.org], or USS Maddox Incident. Don't blame you though, since it happened in 1964. But the distortions, misunderstandings (charitably) and misrepresentations of the US Government (the most charitable one can get is that it was spu...
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─It might have even been the Gulf of Tonkin. Golf at Tonkin would have been more peaceful despite the reputation of that sport.
[14:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:34] <exec> 08└─Gulf of Tonkin, dude.
[14:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:53] <exec> 08└─You can still download it. ISO for the old Windowa versions are available.
[14:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:54] <exec> 08└─Winamp 2 running on a 486 was more fun. Running the Winamp Visualisation Studio fullscreen at a 1600x1200 resolution gave an absurd frame rate, but let me take well-timed screenshots to make funky abstract wallpapers. Before you get of my lawn, could you mow it for me?
[14:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:08] <exec> 08└─No. There's no apologia there. The US government has acted shamefully both in the actions revealed by Manning/Wikileaks and the hounding of Assange. I'm instead railing against statements which are unsupported by evidence or rational argument. The person I responded to was encouraging armed insurrec...
[14:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:27] <exec> 08└─Since I'm talking about Windows OS, I'll let you decide.
[14:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:08] <exec> 08└─Try debugging an APL interpreter that is written in Perl.
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[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─to sue Amazon over gross violations of privacy. Adults are victims of Amazon too, but they're deemed mature enough to be accountable for letting an Amazon device into their homes and putting themselves under surveillance. Yet somehow, I feel adults who are stupid enough to do that may not be much mo...
[15:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:08] <exec> 08└─I agree with your points, AC; but because I am an egalitarian:
[15:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:09] <exec> 08└─Also why do women pay lower car insurance?
[15:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:11] <exec> 08└─so why are you acting surprised?
[15:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:14] <exec> 08└─STFU you incel!!! (do I get +5 insightful for my white knighting?)
[15:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─So articles discussing scientific research into *physiological* differences between humans, and the impact that those differences have on athletic performance is "social politics?" Huh? You lost me there. Now if this were an article about how women make better managers, nicer people, worse software...
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:18] <exec> 08└─Do women pay higher interest rates than men? I've never even heard that, so I'm not going to believe it just because you said that it is so. Gender pay gap? You're right - my boss makes a lot more money than me. I'm marching into HR on Monday, and demand equal pay! Just because she has been with the...
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:20] <exec> 08└─I assume what TFA was talking about was the balance of driving distance vs. accuracy. From later in the article you quoted from: Let’s not forget accuracy, either. Last week, Ken Duke was the most accurate driver on the men's tour, hitting the fairway with just more than 77 percent of his tee shot...
[15:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─Doing laundry regularly helps to avoid those spots, not to mention the racing stripes.
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─Sadists are often sadened, right?
[15:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly want to read a bunch of articles about how men are better heavy-weight lifters than women, regardless of how scientific the process is. It isn't because I disagree with the conclusions, it's that I find the study redundant and its existence only serves to engender stupid gender...
[15:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─Your manner of stating things does sound more accurate. But, I'm not digging into the trivial details to figure it all out. One note, regarding shooting: As a wee little guy, I was told by an uncle that girls are more "natural" shooters. Us guys have to figure out how to shoot, whereas, girls just p...
[15:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─You spelled 'Zumi wrong.
[15:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:34] <exec> 08└─So for women, it's all unconscious (or otherwise) bias. And for men, it's all "well sucks to be a guy"?
[15:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:36] <exec> 08└─"in more places" Never thought of that. It probably takes more energy/work to derive energy from a larger mass of fat, than from more diffuse areas. I got nothing to back that up, but it's an idea.
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─Had this topic been the other way around, i.e. painting men in a better light than women, it would have been equally "clickbait social politics"-y. And yet, are you telling me that it would have triggered and equal amount of trollish, flamebaity, hatefull comments as this one did ?
[15:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:40] <exec> 08└─Do women pay higher interest rates than men? I've never even heard that, so I'm not going to believe it just because you said that it is so.
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─So for women, it's all unconscious (or otherwise) bias. And for men, it's all "well sucks to be a guy"?
[15:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:45] <exec> 08└─No one here will ever take offense to you saying girls are better at something. Only if you say they're worse at something. Then you're sexist incel scum like James Damore.
[15:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─So at small window in human development Girls are stronger than Boys, ergo Girls are stronger than Boys! My fucking sides. Rerards actually gobble this nonsense up.
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─Sure, any women can make scrambled eggs like any man but that is not testing anywhere near limits. As far as sports go, golf is like cooking bear steak from a bear that someone else killed with a knife and drug it back form the hunt. What are the comparisons for dead lifting? That is testing an actu...
[15:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─This isn't the 1970s. That was basically 50 years ago. Stop talking about crap that happened a half century ago.
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:54] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly want to read a bunch of articles about how men are better heavy-weight lifters than women, regardless of how scientific the process is. It isn't because I disagree with the conclusions, it's that I find the study redundant and its existence only serves to engender stupid gender...
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─Um.. You mean before boys get testosterone? Even if they have the same amount of testosterone at that age, they haven't yet been influenced by it(muscles) for long enough for the results to manifest.
[15:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:24] <exec> 08└─Pearl Harbor
[15:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:25] <exec> 08└─That depends on if rDT was playing/cheating.
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─How does removing a mine create any logical link to having targeted the ship with it?
[15:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:29] <exec> 08└─I can't say it was a wise move
[15:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:32] <exec> 08└─Attacking people tends to do that.
[15:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:34] <exec> 08└─Add USS Liberty to the mix, definitely looks like Mossad again.
[15:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:36] <exec> 08└─Nineteen radical muslims.
[15:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:38] <exec> 08└─Mossad
[15:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:40] <exec> 08└─Ouch - between Tonkin and Pearl, my above comment is *wrong*.
[15:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─Just MVVHO. Then again, I'm a curmudgeonly old lawn appropriator who's always believed since DRM was pulled that I buy and make my own MP3 library... one which I can move over to my Apple device but retain full ownership of in a format that all I need is a player. The more amazing part is that they...
[15:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:01] <exec> 08└─Well, I have an old iPod, generation 5, with the old 30-pin connector. It was a great device when it came out - I could put tons of live concerts on it. I also bought an Alpine head unit for my car, with the iPod connector. Works great. I still have that set up and still use it. I mostly listen to p...
[15:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:03] <exec> 08└─They described themselves as typical consumers who want all their content in one place.
[15:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:05] <exec> 08└─For the users?! You must be new to this.
[15:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:08] <exec> 08└─If iTunes goes away, then how do I sync my iPod so I can keep using it the way I do?
[15:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:10] <exec> 08└─Backup iTunes before you update to Catalina. Apple's not going to prevent the application itself from running, they're just no longer going to support it. At some point it will no longer run but you'll probably be able to continue using your existing copy for a decade. If you still need it at that p...
[15:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:12] <exec> 08└─Apple bought them to make iTunes. Bono, of U2, told steve that itunes was too much like a spreadsheet. I like it like a spreadsheet. I like a lightweight way to just play and manage music, iTunes ain't that but it is on my hackintosh. Any suggestions from the crowd? I don't stream, I gave up podcast...
[15:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─what was the current in the super-coil-wire (winding current density of 1,260 amperes per square millimetre(1))? how long did this "shot last"? maybe if they put a smaller unpowered version into the larger, powered one, they can shrink the smaller one inside? strong magnetic fields shrink matter, bu...
[15:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─I don't think we know... [usra.edu], but another source seems to imply it isn't a surface element. Guess the aliens will have goiters.
[15:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:39] <exec> 08└─Damn, forgot to close the tag on the second reference [virginia.edu] that talks about surface component elements. Oh well.
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:57] <exec> 08└─i guess it sucks if you can't go to china, do whatever shenanigans you want, maybe get rich in the process and then when it's time to pay the bill "flee" back home and thumb your nose to the people on the other side of the shore? or maybe it's really a elephant being afraid of a sand-flee?
[15:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:31] <exec> 08└─Don't think so, at least no more torture than usually goes on in confinement. The government now wants to make an example of in a way that chills the publication of material classified because it embarrasses the government, not make a martyr of him that will inspire others to take up his call.
[15:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:33] <exec> 08└─sorry to bug into thread, but assange should have hid inside a micro$oft data center. stuff in m$ overseas datacenters never gets extradited ^_^
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:35] <exec> 08└─Nope. Not a one.
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:37] <exec> 08└─amerikan realpolitik is a bulldozer with a big rainbow colored sign in the front sayin' "we love frogs!" whilst bulldozing the pond ...
[15:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:39] <exec> 08└─There is no friend to be had. Russia has longest milage but even Putin will die someday and who knows who will be next up. If you plan on living any extended amount of time, sooner or later you will get Clintoned.
[15:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:41] <exec> 08└─First they came for the Communists
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:43] <exec> 08└─Wrong. http://centreforinquiry.ca [centreforinquiry.ca]
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[16:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─When are they going to kill it?
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─Let’s hope, in this case, that this particular Google tradition continues unabated. You can have my local processing connected game controller when you pry it out of my dead, cold, tendon inflamed fingers.
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─Sign me up... not!
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─Well, you can't cure stupid. And while you could care about stupid, sure is that stupid with the help of friends smarty and greedy will all accuse you of abusing stupid's *freedom*
[16:15:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─Also why do women pay lower car insurance?
[16:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:37] <exec> 08└─Don't like the stories? Submit ones you do. You have the power to determine what goes on the front page. And guess what, complaining about stories you *don't* like won't do that, submitting stories you do like, will. Just sayin'.
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─It already has. Look at the bunch of anonymous incel loosers who posted so far.
[16:15:40] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't suck to be a guy. I'm a guy, and I've never thought to myself "Oh, woe is me! I hate having to get paid 30% more for my work, or having to pay 15% less on my personal care products. I hate being able to go about my life with little reason to think someone will rape me. I hate that I get b...
[16:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:43] <exec> 08└─*One* of my best friends is a man.
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─It's the same here: my wife doesn't ask me to dust anymore. Rarely asks me to vacuum. But I clean the toilet and bathroom. We both have jobs we do, but when she goes on about how she hates the way I do something, I stop doing it, therefore SHE has to do it. Anecdote? She does NOT complain about the...
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:48] <exec> 08└─Personally, I like the stories that generate conversation. I find the conversation more interesting than the story 90% of the time.
[16:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:50] <exec> 08└─Ayup!
[16:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:52] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:54] <exec> 08└─And women use oxygen more efficiently: in scuba diving have you noticed that women go down with one tank whereas men need two? Oxygen efficiency is needed for the long haul: not so much for short bursts.
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─Got it. You and *one* other guy are knights in shining armor, and all the rest of us are just assholes. Do me a favor, and remember that I'm the ASOCIAL asshole.
[16:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly want to read a bunch of articles about how men are better heavy-weight lifters than women, regardless of how scientific the process is.
[16:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─"Women and men are exactly the same except for the ways that women are better." and except for the ways they're not. I think that's why I love my wife so much: she's good where I fail but needs me for where I don't. But GODS women are wonderful.
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─a man might choose a higher powered club for a similar shot but then have a lower chance of hitting an accurate shot Obligatory Simpsons clip [youtube.com].
[16:16:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 961 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:14] <exec> 08└─You're not alone [time.com] in this state It was an extraordinarily rare move for the military to quickly declassify such imagery for public consumption, but the footage provided compelling documentation to support the Administration’s claims about Iran’s role in sabotage. Still, the events Thur...
[16:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:41] <exec> 08└─An interesting wrinkle is that one of the tankers is Japanese. The Prime Minister of Japan was in Iran, discussing how to reduce tensions with the Ayatolla, when the attack occurred. Does it really make sense for Iran to attack a Japanese tanker with the Japanese PM in the room? Or, does it make mor...
[16:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:43] <exec> 08└─Who benefits from these attacks? Investors?
[16:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:45] <exec> 08└─Update on the Japanese angle: Japanese Oil Tanker Owner Says U.S. Is Wrong About Gulf Attack [thedailybeast.com] Yutaka Katada, the owner of one of the stricken oil tankers crippled in explosions in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, says the U.S. is wrong about the way the attack was carried out. Speaki...
[16:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:47] <exec> 08└─I'm torn. On one hand I find Pomeo's credibility to be very, very low. On the other hand there's video [apnews.com] of Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine from one of the oil tankers.
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:13] <exec> 08└─Problem is the old people who made iTunes brilliant UI design and a fast responsive app RETIRED or left and the people who made it into a slow convoluted mess with bloat are likely still employed... likely the same dysfunction will be involved in the reboot. Renaming to Apple Music is good idea. iTu...
[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─This is preparation for spinning off lines of business and shutting down under-performing business units. Apple revenue growth is hitting a ceiling - volume has been declining since 2014 and the price increases to sustain revenue growth are no longer sustainable. They do not have another hit product...
[16:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:39] <exec> 08└─If a law has been voided and is unenforceable, even if it has not been explicitly expunged, it no longer has the force of law. As such, it is not, in fact, a law at all. The US Constitution explicitly bars such laws (via the First Amendment) and extends that bar to the several states (via the Fourte...
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[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look *terrible*. It's not for me, but I can see that some people might like it.
[17:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─They will provide incontrovertible proof that some people have more money than sense.
[17:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─but they're deemed mature enough to be accountable for letting an Amazon device into their homes and putting themselves under surveillance.
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:45] <exec> 08└─Note: I do know that Facebook and others have been criticized in the past over logging personal information collected from phones (though usually texts, call history, etc., not audio or video -- but I assume that's not because they can't do it, only it's harder to do it without setting off giant ala...
[17:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─Adults are victims of Amazon too, but they're deemed mature enough to be accountable for letting an Amazon device into their homes and putting themselves under surveillance. Yet somehow, I feel adults who are stupid enough to do that may not be much more responsible than children...
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think all those adults are necessarily *stupid*. A quick glance at the election results should remove all doubt. I think they're either *willfully ignorant* (which is much worse than stupid, as you can't fix stupid) or just don't care... Ok, thanks for clarifying :-) Propaganda is just as ef...
[17:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:21] <exec> 08└─So why do women still pay higher interest rates than men? Why is there still a gender pay gap? Why do women, despite working just as hard and long as men, still do most of the household chores? Culture changes slowly, friend. Which is why said *attitudes*. Many of those people are, in fact, dead. Bu...
[17:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:04] <exec> 08└─I get it. There are features which give guys advantages in many circumstances. I just point out, for balance's sake, that there are also biases which give women advantages in some circumstances as well. I can add a few more in: massive bias in law courts when it comes to custody cases; increased lik...
[17:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─Hi troll, did you eat breakfast today? If not maybe that is why you're so cranky.
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─The attitudes and behaviors continue to this day. Things have improved significantly over the past 100 years, but culture changes slowly. Look around you. You don't have to look far. Just read the comments on this story. Ask your sisters (in-law) about it. Ask your female friends and co-workers. Sto...
[17:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─but women are more ruthless. Women's hate, when there, has no limits. It is also often cold blooded hate. That's another reason Russians were using female snipers for a long time. They shoot better and have no compassion to the enemy whatsoever. It also helps when endurance is needed.
[17:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:12] <exec> 08└─massive bias in law courts when it comes to custody cases
[17:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:14] <exec> 08└─scuba diving have you noticed that women go down with one tank whereas men need two?
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─I know that stories come from Soylentils. I just stated my preference that we choose to publish less if all we have are stories of this caliber. The benefit of that approach is that it is even more evident people need to submit stories. But if you enjoy stories like this, then that's just a differen...
[17:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─There is no limit to how well women can do in sports. Ever since trans women have been allowed to compete, women's sports records have been shattered on a weekly basis.
[17:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <exec> 08└─Plus the U.S. entry into WW1 kinda had to do with sinking ships. At first, Wilson tried to maintain neutrality while fighting off the submarines by arming American merchant ships with guns powerful enough to sink German submarines on the surface (but useless when the U-boats were under water). After...
[17:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:02] <exec> 08└─UK had a functioning government from 1979 to 1995 and 1997 to 2016
[17:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:31] <exec> 08└─There is no iTunes to "shut down". iTunes is a piece of software, not a store or service. iTunes, the massively bloated, heavily duct-taped collection of somewhat-related media management software and poor interface to Apple's online rental music and video content is being discontinued on macOS 10.1...
[17:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─Almost, there is an oddball type H, whom cannot take type O- "universal" blood.
[17:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:43] <exec> 08└─Let's just engineer all fetuses to have type O blood.
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[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─They did change the name for the imaging system, but I know for a fact that chemists use NMRs to analyze molecules [msu.edu]. Their work produces resonance graphs, not images, so I think there's still a distinction.
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[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─with no term limits, who can serve as long as the will of the people demands it! He will have perfect blonde hair and the skin of an oompa loompa, and he will be the bestest leader of all time! *puff puff cough cough*Duuuude, that is a triiiip! :)
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─The only difference is if it's pre-scripted fakeness, or if they had to fix it in post :)
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[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Wrong. We all love cynicism around here, but culturally it is getting to be a bit much. Cynicism has gone the hipster route, time to reassess and take on the hard job of at least trying to sort through the bullshit.
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─We've suffered this with still images for years. You might as well try to ban Photoshop and all equivalents.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─In any news story you read that you have any first-hand knowledge of, even from a 'credible' news outlet, how much did they get wrong?
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─Still images? Meh. Grade school level video editing? We're going to have to dox you. AI deep fakes? Enemy of the state.
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─- who decides what is true? - how much would it cost to do this? thought so.. next item on the business agenda..
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that would imply that it hasn't happened. The future is fun! ... The future is fair! ... You may already have won! ... You may already be there!
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[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─Agree, 100%. I want to add, though, that all of it amounts to criminal negligence. Those children we are worried about today? They are being raised up by those willfully ignorant people. Those willfully ignorant people are TRAINING tomorrow's adults that it is *normal* to submit to 24/7 surveillance...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─You're talking about the 2018 election, when all the stupids elected a D house?
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[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─Amazon sued for allegedly storing conversations without consent
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─Those willfully ignorant people are TRAINING tomorrow's adults
[18:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:35] <exec> 08└─Feminist AC, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. I shouldn't have to clarify this, but for you I know I must: THAT WASN'T A JAB AT YOUR SEX OR GENDER! It was a jab at your sexist superiority complex!
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─I know that stories come from Soylentils. I just stated my preference that we choose to publish less if all we have are stories of this caliber. The benefit of that approach is that it is even more evident people need to submit stories. But if you enjoy stories like this, then that's just a differen...
[18:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:38] <exec> 08└─Because none of those things are true. The gender pay gap exists because women prefer other forms of compensation such as a more pleasant work environment and the ability to take vacations. If women gave those things up, they'd be making the same as men. What's more, for women that choose not to get...
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:40] <exec> 08└─There's a reason for that. Women victims of domestic violence are provided with far more protection and support than male victims of domestic violence are. In most cases, nothing is ever done when it's women committing the crimes and as such, there's far less likelihood of them going that far. The m...
[18:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─[...] I am both genetically and socially male[...]
[18:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─a bunch of misoginistic, angry, bitter loosers.
[18:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:47] <exec> 08└─you're not the sharpest tool in the shed.
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't feel too bad.... the question is if it hadn't been these events, would others have been picked that would have precipitated the conflict anyway? I think that's what I'm suspicious of - has elements of the administration been waiting for something they could pin on Iran regardless of the tr...
[18:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─True, but since 102 > 100 it doesn't counter the (flawed for other instances) comment.
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that was embedded in their comment :P Answer: it uses a couple of those mb to play music!
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─The main reason it hadn't been done yet is that while glycosidases with the right specificity have been known for a long time, none of them worked sufficiently well under the right conditions (those found in whole blood). I had a chance to play with GH109 to turn some A into H for making a BSA conju...
[18:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:33] <exec> 08└─> Citizenship means shit As an Aussie who dared leave for more than five years, I came back to basically being a non-citizen, except for my passport....and the right to pay taxes. All they do is insinuate that you only came back to take advantage of Medicare* and social security. So those were denie...
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─...We are not people, we are property.
[18:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:36] <exec> 08└─Yet another novel legal theory.... Committing a crime in the UK, while Australian, gives you immunity.
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[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─When I've had first hand knowledge, the news story was accurate about what they presented, but the context was trimmed in a way calculated to create most emotional reaction.
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─We are already living in Post-Truth society. WMDs anyone? And it goes back hundreads, and thousands of years.
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─So a bottle-blond Kim Jong-un then...
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─Google, Theya re killing Google
[19:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─There are different variates of stupid :) Factor in that there is a LOT of pressure from peers and advertisements to buy these worse than useless gadgets. I can't even turn on the TV, open a web page, or talk to someone without quickly being reminded that I'm supposed to be using a smartphone for......
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─I take your points. They are good ones. I posited three groups: 1. The dumb (they can't help that) 2. The willfully ignorant (they can help that and it really chaps my ass) 3. The folks who aren't ignorant, but just don't care (this can be for a variety of reasons) I suspect that if we were to break...
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:07] <exec> 08└─Too bad we have to use children to sue Amazon over gross violations of privacy.
[19:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:34] <exec> 08└─Sucks to be a guy? Far from it. Guys don't have to deal with menstruation, menopause, breasts, pregnancy etc. And if they don't get too mired in "country matters", they could get a pretty nice life out of it.
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─If you want to sink a ship wouldn't you place the limpet mine at or below the water line?
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─Various people (the captain?) on the tanker denied that it was the Iranians. They could be wrong, but I think it's more likely the US govt is lying again.
[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack [cbsnews.com]
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─*These are not the drones you're looking for*
[19:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─Nineteen radical muslims.
[19:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─So you're saying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard doesn't know what they're doing? Better not say that while sailing through the Straights of Hormuz.
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:00] <exec> 08└─One is aware, nadi. But thank you. Although I already have those ISOs, and could spin up a VM if I desired. I was merely one-upping GP. I still use Winamp, and it works better (as it always did) than any version of iTunes ever did. And yes, I did attempt to use iTunes, but it was much more difficult...
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:02] <exec> 08└─Winamp 2 running on a 486 was more fun. Running the Winamp Visualisation Studio fullscreen at a 1600x1200 resolution gave an absurd frame rate, but let me take well-timed screenshots to make funky abstract wallpapers.
[19:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─If you succeed, you're guaranteed she won't resist turning her north face towards your south pole.
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─> entering the field generates current in the body How about the effects of those massive fields on the quite non-optional and non-throttleable electrical impulses along the nerves ? Any good research results ?
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─What else would you expect? If the sheets didn't remain parallel, they could no longer be described as either "layers" or "stacked". Any twisting between layers can really only refer to lattice alignment.
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[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─If they lowball all of the commodity parts vendors out of the market who cares if they can't build a high-end part? They will still own the world's electronics manufacturing business.
[20:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:31] <exec> 08└─Taiwan is part of China.
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─The whole "huge trade deficit with China" issue is somewhat misunderstood. Currently all the statistics are done against final assembly point. Since China does it the most, the results are biased toward China. Having said that, China will develop to the typical 80% of the US per capita level for sur...
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─Taiwan is still occupied by the US and is ruled by the US appointed military governor. Yes, this position is currently empty, but this does not change the legal fact.
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─US debt is denominated in US dollars. Makes it kind of easy to inflate the debt away by printing money. Have you looked at fed reserve data on money creation since 2008 ?
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─ISTM, without detailed knowledge, that most of the advantage of electronics can be had within their current levels of expertise. It's true that there are increased advantages with more tightly controlled manufacturing, but the cost rises so much that the advantage is decreased. China would probably...
[20:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─Comment would have been better if you had said "Chinese Taipei".
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─That probably is a good idea. As silicon scaling continues to slow down, it will be easier to steal the trade secrets and remain competitive. It's the potential 1,000x performance increase from new technologies that has to be found ASAP. The problem is that there are a number of promising technologi...
[20:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─We never lived in any 'Truth' society in the first damn place. Lying has been standard operating procedure for almost all elements of human society going back before written history. That's why people who tell the truth are so hated -- it's such a shocking departure from the norm.
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:03] <exec> 08└─We all love cynicism around here
[20:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:05] <exec> 08└─"What is truth?" -- Pontius Pilate question to Jesus.
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─"Deepfakes" ? You mean WTC building 7 The World Trade Center building dozens of demolition and explosives experts say was brought down ?
[20:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's already a post-truth and post-laws future. Truth is handled by screams of "Fake News" and the disingenuous debate of alternative facts. Laws don't need to be followed anymore, because they're just tools of the opposition, and therefore don't need to be heeded. Or more exactly, laws wil...
[20:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:12] <exec> 08└─The willingness to accept this future is already here. Who needs Post Truth when you have Alternative Facts?
[20:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:14] <exec> 08└─A priest asked, What is Fate, Master? And he answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build by-ways from City to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and a...
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─We never lived in any 'Truth' society in the first damn place.
[20:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─She has been on the job for nearly 2 years, an eternity in the Trump White House and in that position specifically. Now she can kick back for a while and get ready to become Governor of Arkansas.
[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, I just noticed: "limited edition night blue"??? Where do I send my bank account information for automatic monthly payments??
[20:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─what else are children good for?
[20:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM, KPMG, Merck, Walmart Team Up for Pharmaceutical Blockchain - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this is going to be built on IBM's Hyperledger platform. I still don't understand why this is better than using a shared database in the cloud with updates/deletes disabled.
[20:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:23] <exec> 08└─I imagine this is right up your alley [motherless.com] [NSFW], huh?
[20:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that these are the sorts of resources [motherless.com] [NSFW] you use for your "data." Because it's not coming from the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that's for sure.
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─The murders tend to happen when the abuser thinks the victim is going to leave. Or has already left.
[20:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:51] <exec> 08└─If you use MacOS (the only thing being affected by this change), sync functions for your devices will move from iTunes into Finder.
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:52] <exec> 08└─If you use MacOS (the only thing being affected by this change), sync functions for your devices will move from iTunes into Finder. It will look and function exactly the same.
[20:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:54] <exec> 08└─For the users?!
[20:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously. I can't wait to see how I'm supposed to specify which playlists to sync, and which not to sync, to my iPod from within Finder. I'm really starting to regret moving from Win7 to Mac when Win10 came out, instead of just going to Win10. This means Microsoft will do something new in a week or...
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene (With a Twist) Is Helping Scientists Understand Superconductors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:51] <exec> 08└─OK, let me rephrase that: TFR desperately needs some pictures or diagrams.
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[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─The source is RT, but the FAQ linked in the excerpt does say that. Would we want Kellogg's surveilling us to make sure we're using their corn flakes properly?
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:40] <exec> 08└─Why would China bother to follow in our (USA) footsteps making the incremental upgrades to the foundries ? We stepped up/down as technology became available. They will just steal our current tech and skip the now defunct levels and jump to 7nm. The early bird gets the worm, the early predator gets t...
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─"The problem is that there are a number of promising technologies and nobody is sure which ones will come out on top." In a long-game mindset, try them all, and the State kills of the ones that fail
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:43] <exec> 08└─"My part is 20% slower and warmer, but my spying code is 30% more efficient, and my users have realized they don't need half of the useless fluff you put in your code anyway" We're all carrying supercomputers in our pockets, and wasting most of their capabilities.
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:10] <exec> 08└─https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/11/turing-recreates-lunar-landing/ [nvidia.com]
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─For last 10000 or more years the humanity didn't care much about truth so Post-Truth Era is already in full swing..
[21:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Details Pricing, Hardware for Stadia Streaming Game Service - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─"Where do I send my bank account information for automatic monthly payments??" To me: you can trust me.
[21:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─I do not agree. There are thousands of dangers, far too many to give each one due diligence. Judging which ones are the most serious is never easy, even apart from whatever hangups and phobias a person may have. This is yet another case of a powerful organization taking advantage of people who must...
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:49] <exec> 08└─What about Righty? Aristarchus wants to know.
[21:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM, KPMG, Merck, Walmart Team Up for Pharmaceutical Blockchain - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:58] <exec> 08└─You gave this submission more attention than it deserved.
[21:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:24] <exec> 08└─So stunning and brave!
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─Men speed more. Men also account for a strong majority of DUIs. Also potentially relevant is that men on average choose riskier vehicles than women, e.g. a jacked-up pick-up with a huge rollover risk rather than a relatively safe sedan.
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:28] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn't is on the wrong site. If you're looking for just a news feed, there are plenty of them out there that are more thorough and more timely. There aren't many out there with a community like ours though.
[21:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:54] <exec> 08└─Where's Tron when we need him?
[21:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iTunes Shutting Down - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─I'm really starting to regret moving from Win7 to Mac when Win10 came out, instead of just going to Linux.
[21:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough (Mostly) Converts All Blood Types to Type O - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:08] <exec> 08└─Except the wealthy will engineer their children to be AB instead, and so be universal *recipients*. They couldn't donate anything, but it would be the superior choice for the individual in the case when there are still some non-Os around.
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[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─Yuuup! Don't use Facebook, whatsup, twatter..... i've gotten along fine without ANY of those 'social' 'apps'.
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─Sue your users. Smart move. Next, demand legislation that everyone use your service.
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that there will be lawsuits based on constructed "evidence". Quite a net they are casting out. I hope somebody important with a good lawyer gets snared.
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─IIUC, the changes to the TOS are focused on groups spamming WhatsApp users. Presumably, there is a profit motive there. If WhatsApp's actions make it less profitable (or unprofitable) to do so, those folks will vote with their feet. And if they do this abusively, they will lose even more users. It's...
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─Demand for faster SoCs and more RAM has died out years ago. A well priced 14nm SoC with modern video decoding, baseband/wifi and a good camera or three will be more than satisfactory even at the high-end.
[22:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:15] <exec> 08└─Did someone ask her to tell a lie that is so big that even she won't tell it?
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:16] <exec> 08└─errr... That wasn't nearly as clever as it thinks it was...
[22:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─Clever? Are you daft, man? You gotta go over the top and end with a rimshot [wikipedia.org] so the punters know when to laugh. Sheesh!
[22:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:20] <exec> 08└─Damn Cretans! Unfortunately, most humans are not logical enough for the paradox to even bother them, if they even notice it.
[22:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM, KPMG, Merck, Walmart Team Up for Pharmaceutical Blockchain - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:06] <exec> 08└─And blockchains (like bow ties and fezzes) are cool! And it's the big boys doing it. Not the bit player cryptocurrency guys playing the suckers until they can abscond with their cssh. What I find curious (although not curious enough to read TFA) is how are they going to track via blockchain at the *...
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─A) They're carrying less weight. Given equal loads of work, they lose again. B) Physical strength isn't what makes someone strong except in the most literal and least important sense. Character is where the strength that matters lives. Most women nowadays fail miserably in that scope. And so do most...
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:36] <exec> 08└─As an attack helicopter, you should be more open to varied experience.
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Seems only Runaway submissions make it to the frontpage lately. Dude has, shall we say, "Fox News" type tastes.
[22:18:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─Gulf of Tonkin, dude.
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─Ask W whether you actually need support to start a war, once you've decided. (Iran is too big for a full-scale war, though. Taking back the area around the strait is all Riyadh needs, and blowing up the Ayatollah is all Bibi needs)
[22:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:32] <exec> 08└─Money. It's a big ship, and all-weather cameras and recording devices are expensive. They skimp on crew wages like crazy. Those guys are not spending a dime they don't need.
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─> news of the latest strikes was again broken by media outlets aligned to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran, > who broadcast images of the attacks within minutes of them taking place. Did you know that video of the 9/11 attacks was broadcast live by US TV stations, who are known to propagate US propagan...
[22:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Plans 'Very Small' Space Station After 2022 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Attach them together, refuel, light that candle and go explore !
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[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─What could a company possibly gain by providing a clear, easily understood, or even self-coherent Privacy Policy? Far better to pay a junior lawyer for a day or two and have them craft something completely meaningless which appears at a glance to meet the requirements of the regulations. Then, if th...
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─... where is Soylent News' privacy policy?
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─Anything you say can and will be used against you, and you ain't gettin' no lawyer!
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─“You’re confused into thinking these are there to inform users, as opposed to protect companies,” said Albert Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─Like patents? If I were king, and still gave a damn about the patent office, I'd impose a sliding scale for patent fees: the more instructive a patent is, the easier it is to reproduce what is being patented solely from the text and figures provided, the lower the fee. Not a penalty for obfuscation,...
[23:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 3088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─Feel free to use this one, it came with phpBB software that we use for a forum for a tiny organization, I've replaced our specific additions with "website", "org_name" and "URL" to protect the guilty: -------------- This policy explains in detail how “website” along with its affiliated companies...
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─Yup. I object to the word "disaster". The end result is exactly as designed.
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, my wife uses WhatsApp to chat with family overseas - and I'm not sure how that could be practically abused? Back in the days of dialup, I liked to read my newsgroups, and I didn't like to wait for my 2400 baud modem to download them, so I had a script that would engage at midnight and dow...
[23:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:44] <exec> 08└─Is "Missuse" some sort of euphemism for something? Taking advantage of young women, perhaps? ("Miss use"?) More MeToo violations, coupled with dated inappropriate titles of address? That would explain the outrage... /sarcasm
[23:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─You analogy is so flawed as to be useless.
[23:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:48] <exec> 08└─Their revenue comes from advertisers, not the users. Chasing off users who appear to abuse the system can only make advertisers feel better about the platform. /s
[23:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it means "Monetize in a way that WhatsApp cannot, but wants to"?
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:52] <exec> 08└─Taking advantage of young women, perhaps? ("Miss use"?)
[23:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Lags Behind Other Countries in Semiconductor Manufacturing - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:11] <exec> 08└─> Taiwan is part of China. Well, yeah, according to the Mainland, but not according to many other countries. I call shill from the People's Republic, who knew that our little SN was worth bothering with...
[23:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing on "Deepfakes", Warns of "Post-Truth Future" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, for the past 10000 years people cared deeply about "truth." They just had different standards for it compared to the scientific-empirical definitions of today.
[23:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─aristarchus already knows! Think of the children! I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
[23:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:23] <exec> 08└─Disservices like Facebook and Amazon have negative externalities which affect people who actually care about privacy. Someone could upload a picture of you to Facebook, and their facial recognition algorithms would get to work even if you don't allow yourself to be used by that disservice. If signif...
[23:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:25] <exec> 08└─Every try living the surveillance free lifestyle? Yea, maybe its stupid to have a smart speaker. What about voice input on your phone? Or modern apps for banking, uber, etc. Everything spies, down to your OS and soon your house and car. Then if you take care of yourself, all of the others around you...
[23:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sued for Allegedly Storing Children's Conversations Without Parental Consent - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:27] <exec> 08└─Both parties are massively corrupt (to varying degrees and often in different ways, sure), and you have to be stupid to not see that. Neither the Ds or the Rs are the sole problem.
[23:17:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─Personally, I like the stories that generate conversation. I find the conversation more interesting than the story 90% of the time.
[23:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:08] <exec> 08└─You want to help change this? Stop driving like a dumbass, or help self-driving cars become the norm so the gender of the driver doesn't matter.
[23:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─Or do women just get let go with a warning more often than men?
[23:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Makes Women Strong? - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:12] <exec> 08└─I followed the trail back to the original study. It's no longer up, but you can get it in the wayback machine [archive.org]. It found that, while women do pay higher interest rates, they're also more likely to miss payments and less likely to comparison shop for the best deal among competing credit...
[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─Why aren't you at all concerned about Iran's binary actions here?
[23:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:07] <exec> 08└─with a "global peacekeeping force"
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record for World's Strongest DC Magnet - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:21] <exec> 08└─My fault, you don't need to apologize.
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